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	<title>Matthew T Grant &#187; philosophy</title>
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		<title>In General</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All generalizations are either false or tautologous. The goal of science is to create new generalizations. The goal of philosophy is to demonstrate that said generalizations are either false or tautologous. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>No Reason to Stop</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/11/13/no-reason-to-stop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 03:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Standing on the corner of College Avenue and Dryden Friday night at 1:30ish, watching undergraduates stagger around aimlessly and shout at/to each other, I turned to my friend saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna call it a night, even though, frankly, there&#8217;s really no reason to stop.&#8221; &#8220;Now you see how I&#8217;m living,&#8221; he replied. Just a moment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging for the Hell of It</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, in a class on &#8220;Blogging&#8221; that she was teaching as part of a course my company produced, Erika Napoletano said something to the effect that, &#8220;Nobody blogs just for the hell of it.&#8221; My first response was: &#8220;Actually, I blog just for the hell of it.&#8221; &#8220;This blog—an ill-organized assortment of essays, reviews, aphorisms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Articles of Faith</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/06/07/articles-of-faith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The amount of money one makes is the clearest indicator of one&#8217;s value to society. Success or failure is solely determined by an individual&#8217;s intelligence and strength. Suffering results directly from one&#8217;s own personal choices. There are no accidents, only instances of weakness, ignorance and indiscipline. The purpose of the state, society and culture is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joe Lovano, Regattabar, October 14, 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/03/08/joe-lovano-regattabar-october-14-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Das Ganze ist das Unwahre. &#8211; Theodor Adorno It was some months ago now that I saw Joe Lovano and the Us Five band (pianist James Weidman, bassist Peter Slavov, who was filling in for the suddenly famous Esperanza Spalding, and drummers Otis Brown III and Francisco Mela) at the Regattabar. At the time I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lord, Give Us the Strength to Understand Ourselves</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/01/27/lord-give-us-the-strength-to-understand-ourselves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I set up a blog on Blogspot (now Blogger) back in 2000. I haven&#8217;t posted anything there since 2009 and, frankly, my activity on said blog—universal destroyer, inc.—was pretty spotty. For example, I posted nothing at all in 2004 or 2005, bracketing this lack with six posts in &#8217;03 and four in &#8217;06. I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portal or The 36 Chambers of Death Metal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 05:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Death Metal is genre music. Its defining characteristics are complex riffing (with a sometimes equally complex approach to meter), &#8220;blast beat&#8221; drumming, and vocal stylings that range from deep grunting to &#8220;cookie monster&#8221; growling to maniacal screaming. Naturally, the lyrical content of death metal centers around death —its many causes, violent and otherwise, as well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Really Real, Totally Authentic Thing</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2010/08/17/the-really-real-totally-authentic-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you don&#8217;t have time to blog then don&#8217;t. Ghost blogging is inauthentic &#38; the antithesis of everything social. #dontbeafake cc @mitchjoel &#8211; Avinash Kaushik When I was in graduate school, there was a lot of talk about the &#8220;death of the author.&#8221; Such talk was driven primarily by French, post-structuralist thinkers like Barthes, Foucault, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atheism</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2010/08/09/atheism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[God is dead. &#8211; Nietzsche Nietzsche is dead. &#8211; God In America, and apparently some parts of the developing world, it can be very shocking when you tell people that you do not believe in God. Indeed, even among America&#8217;s educated classes, you&#8217;ll rarely hear an expression of outright atheism (though you will encounter a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Post Has No Value</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2010/07/09/this-post-has-no-value/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philosophy simply puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything. &#8211; Ludwig Wittgenstein &#8220;Epistemology pays no bills,&#8221; Martin remarked drily. &#8211; Charles Stross, &#8220;The Singularity Sky&#8221; When I wrote about the &#8220;database of intentions&#8221; and linked that concept to my own longstanding view of the web as the &#8220;database of human consciousness,&#8221; and [...]]]></description>
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